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The Poetry corpus within the Russian National Corpus is one of the most representative poetry corpora in the world today. All major trends in Russian poetry of the 18th-20th centuries are represented in it.

A unique feature of the RNC Poetry Corpus is its verse annotation. It reflects both the text properties and the structure of the verse itself and its individual lines. 

Thanks to the verse annotation, it is possible to solve a variety of tasks. For example, one can get information about the frequency of fables as a poetic genre in Russian literature: there are 940 fables in the corpus out of 101,521 texts as of August 2024. Using sorting tools, one can find out that the first fable in the corpus was written in 1731 by the satirical poet Antioch Kantemir, who was also a diplomat in the Russian service.

For verse scholars, the annotation of the verse structure is more interesting. Using it, for example, it is possible to study the history of Russian word stress and of the pronunciation in general.

More information about the structure and practical applications of the Poetry Corpus can be found in the Publications section.